The Rt Rev

Right Reverend

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 William George Peel, DD

Doctor of Divinity

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 was an Anglican Bishop

Bishop

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 in Mombassa in what is now Kenya

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. He was accused of heresy in the Kikuyu controversy

Kikuyu controversy

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Biography

He was born in 1854, educated at Blackheath Proprietary School

Blackheath Proprietary School

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 , and ordained in 1875. After a Curacy

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 in Trowbridge

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 he went out as a missionary

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 to India

India

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 where he rose to be Principal

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 of Noble College Masulipatam. Elevation to the Episcopate as the third Bishop

Bishop

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 of Mombasa

Mombasa

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 came in 1899. He died in post on 15 April 1916.

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